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A GAR GOUPLING.` No. 317,316. Patented May 5, 1885. l 7

W/bvm/ k/ UNITED STATES i PATENT FFICE.

ALBERT A. DAILEY, OF `WILSON, NEV

CAR-COUPLING.

PElCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,316, dated-May 5, 1885.

Application filed J une 3, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, 'residing at Wilson, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this improvement is an efficient and reliable means of preventing the damage to life and limb so frequently accruing from the operation of coupling"railroadcars.

The first part of my invention consists in the construction of the draw-head adapting it to receive and providing it with a peculiarlyformed link-pin and also a tumbler, for automatically controlling the link-pin when coupling the cars.

The second part of my invention consists in providing the end of the car with vertically and horizontally arranged link -pin lifters,

whereby the link-pin may be operated for disconnecting the cars and for setting the linkpin for automatically connecting the same, either from the ground at the side of the car or from the top thereof.

The third part of my invention consists in providing the bumper-beam with a rook-shaft having a cam or trigger arranged to operate in connection with the horizontal lifter, for locking the adjustment of the parts from the ground7 and for use in the application of my improvement to flat cars.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application of my improvement to a box car. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the automatic tumbler, one of the parts of the drawhead detached therefrom. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thc link-pin detached from the draw-head. Fig. Ll is a sectional view of the draw-head, showing the link-pin and automatic tumbler in position for coupling. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the draw-head, showing the link-pin partially raised from its normal position. Fig. 6 is an end view of the drawhead or bumper. Fig. 7 is a perspec- 5o tive view, illustrating the position of thever- (No model.)

tical lifter necessary for adjusting and setting the link-pin from the top of the cars.

A is the vertical lifter, secured centrally to the end of the car by means of a staple, b, and catch-plate B.

C is a collar or shoulder ou said lifter, and which, when the latter is elevated for the purpose of adjusting the link-pin, passes through the enlarged opening of and is set over the narrow slot in the catclrplate B, and is thereby supported in position, as shown in Fig. 7.

D is a chain attached to the lifter A, and connecting thence with the curved lever E, which is rigidly secured to the transverse horizontal lifter G, having operating-handles G, and affixed to the end of the'car by journalboxes or staples, as shown.

I is a rod or link connecting the motion of the curved lever E and the link-pin K with that of the chain D and lifter A.

H is a rock-shaft, provided with a cam or locking-trigger, J, arranged to engage with the curved extension F of the lever E; and serve to lock the parts in the desired position from the ground, and thereby Ahold the coupling-pin up in the same manner as the lifter A does when it is elevated and adj usted in the narrow slot of the catch-plate B'.

O is a box-car, to which the drawfhead L is attached in the usual manner, save that the bumper is recessed and the draw-head is partially tted therein and secured thereto by a strap, I.

rIhe link-pin Ii is provided at its rear side with a lug or extension, 7:, for a purpose hereinafter set forth.

The aperture in the draw-head for the reception of .the link-pin is elongated, and the rear portion thereof is occupied by a self-acting or automatic tumbler, Q, a recess, L', being formed in the under part of the draw-head for the reception of the lower end of the same. rlhe said tumbler is preferably of curved form, and so made as to normally fall or lean forward against the pin K or its extension lf. Vhen the pin is elevated, the tumbler Q falls or leans forward, and its upper end comes under the lug or projection 7c of the link-pin and supports the latter in such position until the tumbler is disengaged from the pin by con- IDO tact with the link of an approaching car, or it is otherwise adjusted. The lug on the pin` also serves to force the inner end of the link downward, and thus elevate its outer end sufiiciently to enter an approaching but higher draw-head. When the approaching draw-head is lower, a slight elevation of the pin K will permit the outer end of the link to assume a corresponding position.

M M are links Vof different forms, either of which may be used with decided advantage. R It are channels in the bumper-head, in which the sides of the link rest.

Then it is desired to couple two ears, the pin of one is elevated until the tumbler Q, drops under the lug-7'` of the coupling-pin K. The link of the other car is then directed to enter that head, which, when it comes in contact with the tumbler, forces it from engagement with the lug k, when the pin will inimediately descend and pass through or into it.

Having explained the construction and opand the extension F, all arranged and operating substantially as shown and described.

2. In a car-coupling, the vertical lifter A, chain D, rod I, coupling-pin K, provided with the lug k, and the 'automatic tumbler Q, in combination with the lever E, extension F, rock-shaft H, and cam J, all arranged and operating substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 'presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT A. BAILEY.

Vitnesses:

LAWRENCE J. MGFARLIN, FRANK S. Osdoon. 

